{"id":17165,"date":"2024-11-19T13:12:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=17165"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:12:52","slug":"episode-613-frances-jetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-613-frances-jetter","title":{"rendered":"Episode 613 – Frances Jetter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 613:
\nFrances Jetter<\/a><\/p>\n

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“My work materializes and ends up in being through printmaking and sometimes in other forms, but it starts with the drawing, and if the drawing doesn’t work, it’s not going to be anything but decoration.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Artist Frances Jetter<\/a> joins the show to talk about her amazing new book, AMALGAM: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn<\/a> (Fantagraphics Underground). We talk about how the book both expanded and narrowed in scope during its 12-year process, how her grandfather’s story bleeds out into American, Jewish and labor history, and how she integrated her trademark linocut prints with other media to create an unforgettable graphic narrative. We get into how the editorial illustration field changed over her career and why she moved toward artist’s books and narrative art, why “illustrator” isn’t a dirty word & why having her work out in the world is important, how we don’t always see the resonances of our work when we’re in the middle of it, how working with other materials and forms (like sculpture) rejuvenated her drawing, what she learned about storytelling in the making of AMALGAM<\/em>, her family’s political background and her awakening, how students have changed over her 40+ years teaching at SVA, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read AMALGAM<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Even though I love so many memoirs, the idea of including it in my book was embarrassing to me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n